Car, house shot up on city’s South Side

Staff report

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A man was arrested on two warrants after police responded to a call reporting gunfire about 12:15 a.m. Friday and found a house and car shot up.

Police were called to the 100 block of East Judson Avenue on the South Side after receiving multiple calls from residents and other police in the area about gunfire. When officers arrived, they found a house at 185 E. Judson Ave. with the front door kicked in and broken glass all over the street.

There also were tire tracks in the snow that led to a neighbor’s house where it appeared a vehicle had slammed into a garage, reports said.

In the driveway, police found three spent 12-gauge shotgun shells and two spent 9mm shell casings, reports said.

The neighbor whose garage was hit told police he heard shooting and glass breaking and a loud crash but he did not know his garage had been hit.

Witnesses said an SUV was in front of the house when the shots were fired and police pulled over an SUV farther up the street driven by Demetric Cobb, 21, of Youngstown. The windows were shot out and the SUV was riddled with bullets, reports said.

Reports said Cobb told police he had met a woman earlier who told him to meet her at the 185 E. Judson Ave. home, and when he pulled in the drive, a man with a shotgun was there, followed by other men holding handguns demanding money.

Cobb told police he gave the men $500 and then tried to drive away as they shot at him. He drove backward and ducked under his dashboard until he hit the garage, then drove away, reports said.

A records check revealed Cobb had two warrants for failure to appear for driving-under-suspension charges and he was taken to the Mahoning County jail.